Along the Natchez Trace

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

2009-10 Winter Tana Tour, Status Update February

Well, we have paid the rent here for another month.

Man's mother is doing much better, it was nip and tuck there for a while, but we figured out what medicine was doing her harm, got her off it. She somehow was not taking her night time meds, that also has been rectified. Between the two changes she has improved over the last several weeks more than we could have hoped for.

There will be no Arizona trip, no Salt Lake City for research. At least not this winter/spring.

We are still taking this day by day, but, Man and I both feel we are off the hour by hour detail. He strongly feels that she is capable of staying where she is, with the great help from the visiting nurse, our wonderful sons and daughter-in-law and her fabulous neighbors.

Unless something drastic happens we are good to go for another month here. Come March 15th we will decide about the next month or so.

Continued prayers are sent your way from Ohio and I hope you DO get some warm weather SOON. I just noticed your heritage flag....same as mine....USA, UK and GER....floating in the same country gene pool! AND, how did you do that Wordle with multicolors....did I miss that???

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About Me

Things I love: Family, Grandchildren, Rving, computers (sometimes, but not when they are being bad), family history, yorkies, techy toys like my iToys, photography.
I am all of these, so I write about them all, and more.

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Which Am I?

Am I a genealogist or a family historian?

Well, both of course, how can you be one without the other?

A family historian depends on the genealogist to supply the facts.

A genealogist depends on the family historian to tell the stories.

Genealogist, family historian, I am one in the same.

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Favorite sayings

" Living on Earth isn't cheap, but it does include a yearly free trip around the sun." (Source unknown.)

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt

"The only difference between a rut and a grave...is the depth."

Chinese proverb: "To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root."

"I sure wish they sold memory sticks for humans...I could use an upgrade."

"Don't let procrastination be your primary time management skill."

"If you are normal....no one will listen, If you're deranged....they will make you their leader."

"You're just jealous that the voices are talking to ME!"

"I'm quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service." (From George E. Woodberry)

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand." (From Henri Nouwen)

"Don't go where the road leads, rather go where there is no road and make a trail."

"Broken hearts are what give us strength, understanding and compassion."